Tell me a story: Two recent books examine the human impulse toward narrative, for better and worse
"Never trust a storyteller," Gottschall warns, although he also points out that we do, all the time, and it's probably inevitable.
Harold R. Johnson and Tomson Highway invoke Indigenous knowledge and the Trickster figure in books that seek to recapture connection to the land and ourselves
The two Indigenous authors offer different ways of thinking about the stories we tell ourselves and providing suggestions for how to rewrite those stories to our benefit.